“It really was love at first sight,” Naomi, owner of TipsyCake, says about her husband John. “I first noticed him sitting on a milk crate, waiting to get to work. He was perfect, just like that. I didn’t care that he smashed the ice sculpture at Tipsy’s grand-opening.”

“I just didn’t have enough room,” John explains. “Naomi had ordered a three-tiered cake ice-sculpture that commanded everyone’s attention. So much so, that as the crowd around it swelled with admirers, it became almost impossible to navigate amongst the party-goers. That’s when ‘it’ happened.”

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“Trying to balance a glassware rack above my head or in front of me or even a little off to the side, I just didn’t have enough room,” recalls John. “In an effort to not knock the head off a guest with the corner of the rack, a quick move resulted in me swerving the rack away from the person’s head and into the top tier of the ice cake. With a thwack, the rack hit the ice and the top of the sculpture slid to the floor. Nobody moved. You could hear a pin drop. I thought I ruined her big day.”

Naomi was too busy staring at John to notice the demolition of her ice sculpture.

“I wanted to be with this man,” was what kept creeping into her mind.

“I thought I knew her,” John recalls. “But when she opened her mouth and I heard the Aussie accent, I realized I was wrong. I knew I needed to know her. But I was there to tend bar. It was her grand opening and I had a job to do, even if I ruined the sculpture. When the end of the night came, I was reluctant to ask for payment, but she insisted I speak with her. I walked over and to my surprise, she planted a big kiss on me.”

“I couldn’t wait for our first date,” says Naomi. “And that was Valentine’s Day. We dined at Maiz in Humbolt Park. I was totally relaxed. For the first time ever in my life, I felt ‘I had arrived.’ When it came to love, I never felt this way before. No nerves. No butterflies. There was no rubbish. No malarkey. I remember thinking, ‘This is how it should be.’”

“Naomi is sensitive, captivating and intense.”

“John is passionate, intelligent and fiery.”

Incredible, amazing and delicious are just a few of the words TipsyCake clients use to describe the work of “The Cake Aussie,” Naomi Levine. Naomi, her husband John and their son Michael live, work, play, bake and decorate cakes in Chicago, home of TipsyCake.

Check out TipsyCake‘s cool creations here.

Photo courtesy of Naomi and John.

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